. >> the house has done its work and passed a bill on saturday night, send it to the united states senate to delay obamacare for one year and would eliminate permanently the medical device tax that is costing us tens of thousands of jobs that are being shipped overseas. >> reporter: they stripped it back out and sent the measure back to the house. the house on monday night sent it back to the senate and the senate met right after that and sent it back to the house. >> albert einstein said when defining insanity as follows: quote during -- doing the same thing over and over again and thinking you will get a different result, einstein was a genius but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the proof is watching the house republicans because they lost their minds. >> reporter: the u.s. government has been down this gridlock road before. there have been 17 government shut downs since 1977. the last one was also the longest. that government shut down in december 1995 lasted for 21 days. mike with al jazeera washington. >> while the main focus of the budget battle has been in washington 85